NPD has released May sales figures for the US, showing the third best-selling May on record after 2008 and 2009 and some monster sales for Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. However, the industry as a whole was down 10 percent for the month year-on-year.

Famitsu’s published its Japanese sales figures for 2008, clearly showing an industry in decline. Hardware and software sales combined were worth ¥552.42 billion in 2008, compared to ¥676.95 billion in 2007. Hardware sales fell from ¥317.47 billion in 2007 to ¥231.52 billion last year. Software sales from ¥359.58 billion the previous year to ¥320.91 billion […]

Sega recently filed two software trademarks in the U.S. and Europe called Ringedge, Ringwide and a third, which is a mysterious logo with rings. Both Ringedge and Ringwide have been trademarked for “stand alone video game machines, and arcade game machines with built-in screens” according to Siliconera. Maybe this means we will start seeing more […]